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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPuerto Rico Is a "Playground for the Privileged": Investors Move In as Homes Foreclose & Schools Clo
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/6/6/puerto_rico_is_a_playground_forPuerto Rico Is a Playground for the Privileged: Investors Move In as Homes Foreclose & Schools Close
June 06, 2018
While healthcare, the public school system and infrastructure in Puerto Rico are flailing nine months after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, wealthy investors have descended on the island to turn a profit. We speak with Naomi Klein, author, journalist and a senior correspondent for The Intercept. Her new book is titled The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists. We also speak with Katia Avilés-Vázquez, a Puerto Rican environmental activist and member of Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica, and Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE and co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance.
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Puerto Rico Is a "Playground for the Privileged": Investors Move In as Homes Foreclose & Schools Clo (Original Post)
G_j
Jun 2018
OP
And watch them whine and squeal for loans and fed money after the next hurricane
hatrack
Jun 2018
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Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)1. Expected this...It's all in the Shock Doctrine...
All the vultures are diving in for the kill.
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)11. Yup.
First thing that came to mind the day I heard about the disaster.
Very predictable.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Right on Schedule.
Trump's Cronies were there the day after the Storm .
hatrack
(59,587 posts)3. And watch them whine and squeal for loans and fed money after the next hurricane
Bank on it.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)4. I've said this from day one. This administration had no intention of making PR whole. They wanted it
to crash and burn so they could swoop in and pick up wildly valuable real estate for nothing. The president is a real estate shark for christ's sake. What did everyone think he would do?
G_j
(40,367 posts)8. exactly right
disaster capitalism at its finest
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)10. Minimal investigation
would probably show that beevis and butthead have been circling over the island waiting for the "kill".
appalachiablue
(41,146 posts)5. 'Never let a good disaster go to waste'..
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)6. carpetbaggers...
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)7. SOP, thanks G_j and Prof Klein. And DemNow.
deja vu
Duppers
(28,125 posts)17. Exactly!
malaise
(269,063 posts)12. Naomi Klein warned us in The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
Same criminality happened after Katrina and after that horrific tsunami in the Indian Ocean -they stole the entire coastline from the locals.
Same criminality happened after Katrina and after that horrific tsunami in the Indian Ocean -they stole the entire coastline from the locals.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)14. This is just criminal. Their resorts will be built on the bodies of the
nearly 5000 dead. How do they live w/ themselves?
ananda
(28,867 posts)15. This happened in NOLA after Katrina also.
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